I am writing in response to a recent letter to the editor that expressed concern regarding potential health risks from wind farms (“Spread of wind power produces health worries,” Sept. 21).

As a clean energy source, the wind energy industry takes any concerns over health seriously. The credible peer-reviewed scientific data and various government reports in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. have found no evidence that wind farms cause negative health effects.

For example, in their own independent reviews of available evidence, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council found that sound from wind turbines does not cause negative health impacts.

Additionally, in the United States, the Massachusetts Departments of Public Health recently commissioned a panel of experts to analyze “the biological plausibility or basis for health effects of turbines (noise, vibration and flicker).”

The experts — who had backgrounds in public health, epidemiology, toxicology, neurology and sleep medicine, neuroscience, and mechanical engineering — found no evidence of health effects from wind turbines. The agency’s review of existing studies included both peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed literature.

Further, it is important to keep in mind, that unlike traditional generation sources, wind turbines emit no greenhouse gases and none of the air pollutants that other sources of electrical generation emit, such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and other airborne toxins, that result in respiratory and cardiovascular disease as well as the environmental problems of acid rain and smog.

The fact remains that the combined benefits of wind energy all serve to make wind power the least impactful form of energy production available to our society today from both an environmental and human health standpoint.

John Anderson is the director of siting policy for the American Wind Energy Association in Washington, D.C.